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365 User accounts for work teams - Good idea or not?
Hello, please bear with me this is my first post. Apologies if in wrong place! I work for a small charity using E3 non-profit. We have user accounts and a combo of groups/shared mailboxes for som...
- You dont have to worry about shared mailboxes/Groups, you access these as "delegate" via your own account and credentials. Thus, you only need to protect your user accounts.
You dont have to worry about shared mailboxes/Groups, you access these as "delegate" via your own account and credentials. Thus, you only need to protect your user accounts.
VasilMichev Hi Vasil, thanks for your response.
This is what I thought! I can't understand why our IT support and the MS-certified respondent are advising me to switch to user accounts?
Thanks again,
Andy
- You cannot login as the shared mailbox hence 2FA is not required. It will be more of a risk if you have a user account that is shared with multiple users. I would just use shared mailbox for any non-user accounts for emails related.
MichaelVi24 thanks for this.
I've found that shared mailboxes still create a User account, which I've been told is a baked-in feature.
As long as I block sign-ins for this linked user account, that should be OK, right?
